Photographic duplicating and enlarging apparatus.



G. R. WATSON. PHOTOGRAPHIC DUPLICATING AND ENLARGING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED Nov.14. |913.

1 ,204,098. v Patented NOI/A'. 7, 1916.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC DUPLICATING AND ENLARGING APPARATUS. APPLICATION HLED Nov. 14. 1913.

l ,204,098. Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

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G. R. WATSON.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DUPLICATING AND ENLARGING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.14. 1913.

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I PHOTOGRAPHIC DUPLICATING AND ENLARGING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 7, 1ere.

Application led November 14,- 1913. Serial No. 801,088.

To all whom t may concern: A

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. WATSON,

. citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, `in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Photographic Duplicating and Enlar'ging Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the provision of a duplicating and enlarging apparatus for photographically reproducing and duplicating records and documents such as letters, maps, drawings, etc.

A. further object of my invention is to provide a reproducing camera. having an exposing opening, preferably variable, means for moving a ribbon of sensitized surface across said exposing opening, and means for marking on said ribbon, relatively to said exposing opening, the dividing line between the adjacent pictures photographed on said j ribbon in order that the ribbon may be cut as convenient for inishing the photographing process, or otherwise. .Said marmng is conveniently attained by transversely perf-orating said ribbon along said dividing line.

A further object of my invention is so to arrange my apparatus that its operation of advancing the negative ilm and the sensitized ribbon producing the positive in synchronism, is performed at the reproducing camera, since such is more convenient for the operator; and to make-the means employed for transmitting the motion from the reproducing camerate the projecting 'camera adapted to be readily disconnected,

so that the reproducing camera may operated independently of the projecting ca1nera, when it is desired to make a number of positives from any one negative.

Further objects of the invention will be' view on line 6-6 of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the exposing camera .show-1 ing one side thereof open to illustrate interior mechanism. Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the film reels of the exposing camera. Fig. 9 is a face view of the shutter and a film advancer. Fig. 10 is a plan sectional view thereof. Fig. 11 is a view in elevation With parts in section of the mechanism for marking the negative film; and Fig. l2 is a front elevation with parts in section agreeing with Fig. 11.

Like characters of reference designate similar parts throughout the diiferent iig-A ures of the drawings.

I will rst brieiy refer to the initial strip which consists in photographing records upon a. lm. as shown more particularly in Figs. 11 and 12. 1 designates a taking camera which is shown mounted upon support 2 for location at proper focal distance from the holder device 3 in which the record to be photographed is positioned. The holder device 8 may consist of a backing 4 and a frame 5. provided with adjusting means G and spring clamps 7, the latter functioning to hold'the record to be photographed against the back-4 Vadvaiicing the ilm in the camera 1 and such means may comprise an operating crank 9 having suitable gear connection 10 with the film reels of the camera so thatv upon one complete rotation of the crank" an `exposure will be made and the-film advanced for a new exposure.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2,'and more particularly to the exposing or projecting Camera, 11 designates a dark room which is partitioned off by a wall 12 and on one side of the wall I provide alight support 13.

In the present disclosure I have shown an arc light 1t which is mounted upon an arc holder 15 adapted to be slidably adjusted on a rail 16 toward and from the wall 12. Suitable electrical connections 17 and a switch 18 may be provided but the same are only generally indicated, as they form no part of the present invention.

In the dark room 11 a support 19 is.pro vided for the projecting camera which-,iat-

ter is indicated as a whole at 2.0.` In the rear wall of said camera I provide condensing lenses 21 adjacent an opening `22 in the wall The frame 5 may be eci 12, for projection of the rays'of light from the arc therethrough on tp the film to he exposed. In the camera 20 are mounted supply and take-up film reels 23 and 24, respectively, for the photographic film 25.

In Fig. 8 I have shown spindles 26 and 27 on which reels 23 and 24 are mounted. A leaf spring drag 28 is provided for the supply reel 23 and I provide means for imparting rotation to the take-up reel 24 which may consist of the following construction A pulley 29 is looselymonted on the spin dle 27 a`nd is secured to a leaf spring 30 which bears against reel 24, the latter also being loose on spindle 27. As the pulley 29 1s revolved it will frictionally rotate the reel 24 to take up slack in the film 25 for a purpose which will presently appear.

The film 25 is trained'over a guide roller 31 in its passage to an exposing pos1t1on,and theguide roller 31 is suitably journaled in a bearing 32. Likewise the film 25 is trained about al guide roller 33 in its passage toward the take-up reel 24. See Fig. 'lhe roller 33 is provided with a mounting 1ndicated at 34.`

The lens of the camera is indicated at 35 and a shutter is shown at 36. The film 25 is passed through a guide indicated generally at 37 and which is provided with a door 38. The door 38 is provided with a suitable opening 39 through which the rays of hght pass from the arc 14. A spring 40 serves to hold a roller 41 against the film 25 to hold the latter against a sprocket film advancer indicated at 42 in Figs. 9 and 10, the film 25 having sprocket openings in the margins thereof for engagement with sprocket teeth 43, of the film advancer. Within the film guide 37 any suitable means may be provided for holding the film in proper4 posision for exposure, but as such means does not constitute a part of my' invention the same is not illustrated. i

The film advancing sprocket or roller 42 is mounted on a shaft 44 which is journaled in a bracket 45, suitably supported in the interior of the camera. One member, which may be the driven member orradially slotted cross 46 of a Geneva movement is mounted upon shaft 44 and the cam or actuating member of the movement 47 is mounted on a shaft 48, the latter being journaled in the bracket 45. The Geneva movement, for the camera operates in the usual manner so that When'the pin 49 of the actuating member 47 enters one of the slots 50 of the actuated or driven member 46 the roller 42 will be advanced, and when the cam portion 51 of the actuating or drivingmember 47 of the Geneva movement enters one of the arc recesses 52, the shaft 44. will then beidcked.

The shaft 48 is provided with a gear 53 (see Fig. 10) which meshes with a gear 54 on a shutter shaft 55, which latter is suitably journaled lin brackets 45 and 56. The shutter shaft 55 carries a shutter' 57 having an tion of the movement of the shutter with.

respect to the advancement of the film can be regulated, as will hereinafter more fully appear. y

In order to rotate the take-up reel 24 to take up film slack as a result of advancing movement of the film 25 by the sprocket roller 42, I provide on the shaft 44 a pulley 63, which is belted as indicated at 64, to the pulley 29, as will be readily seenvby reference to Figs. 7, 8 and 9.

I will next refer to the reproducingapparatus which is shown more particularly in Figs. 1 to 6'; A case 65 is provided with an exposure opening 66 adapted for disposivtion .in the desired projection scope or range with respect to the camera 20. A bromid strip or film 67 is adapted to be advanced abreast of the exposure opening 66, by means hereinafter described. An imperforate black slide 68 is mounted in suitable guides 69 and isadapted td be shifted in the guide' .69 to either cover or expose the opening 66.

An exposing black slide 70 is slidable in the guides 69 back of the imperforate black slide 68 and is of a size suitable for certain enlargements. vAny desired number of exposing slides 70 may be proyided with different sizes of exposing openings 71 and these slides may be substituted, the one for the other, when the black slide 68 is in a closed position. I have not thought it necessary to indicate Yany light prpof or tight strips or fittings as these are structural matters clearly Within the Iskill of anyone conversant with this art.

Within .the case 65 I provide a frame 72 on which areimounted a plurality of spouts and rollers for guidingthe bromid strip 67, and also the means for operating the same. Positioning rollers 73 and 74 are shown mounted on the case 65 to maintain the bromid strip 67 abreast of the exposing opening 66. A supply spool 75 is mounted in the frame 72 and when the case is to be loaded, the entire supply of the bromid l .strip is on the supply spool 75. The end of the strip 67 will be trained over rollers 73 and 74, and therefrom to a spacing and advancing roller 76. This roller will be-provided with pis 7 7 for perforatin'g the strip 66 so that the same may be severed at the Juncturejof or between adjacent units of prints or reproductions thereon. Spacing or perforating rollers 76 of different diameters will be employed in order that the circumference of the spacing roller 76,l in use, will equal the height of the exposing opening 71 in the black slide 70. 'When a black --slide is'used with a larger or smaller opening a perforating or spacing roller of a corresponding diameter or circumference will be used. The bromid strip 67 will be trained about the. roller 76 between pressure rollers 77a and 78. As shown in Fig. 1 the pressure roller 7 7a 'is shown mounted upon arms 79, one only of which is shown, and which is pivoted at 80 upon the frame 72. Pressure roller 78 is mounted in similar arms, only one of which is shown at 81, and such arms are pivotally mounted at 80. Springs 82 and 83 hold the pressure rollers in engagement with the spacing roller 76.. The strip 67 is trained over spacing roller 78 -to a take-up spool 84 which isr suitably slotted to receive the end of the strip, in starting the same.

On the outer end of the spindle 85 of the spacing roller 76, l mount a sprocket wheel las i, te

86 over which a sprocket chain 87 is trained,

the chain 87 being also trained about a sprocket wheel 88 on a shaft 89, suitably journaled in the frame 72. lnside of the sprocket wheel 86 l mount a pulley 90, which is suitably fixed to the spindle 85, and on a spindle 91 ofl the take-up spool 84, l mount a pulley 92. A spring belt 93 is trained about pulleys 90 and 92 to yieldingly or frictionally revolve spool 84 to take up slack in the strip 67. @n one end of a crank shaft 100 l mount a bevel gear 94 adapted to mesh with bevel gear 95 on shaft 96. Shafts 96 and 59 are adjustably connected preferably by means of a sleeve 97 having set screws 98 and 99, one for fastening the shaft 96 and the other for fastening shaft 59. This adjustable connection not only provides for the desired adjustment of the camera and enlargment case with respect to focal range, but it also provides for rotative adjustment of the sleeve with respect to the shafts 96 and59 so as to accurately time the movement of the reproducing mechanism with the projecting camera mechanism.

l will next describe the manner in which the bromid strip and the`iilm are advanced lin predetermined relation with'respect to each other. The shafts 89 and 100 are operatively connected by means such as a Geneva movement, the driving member 101 being mounted on the shaft 100. rEhe driving member consists of a Geneva cross having radial slots 103 and arcuate peripheral portions 104. YThe driving member comprises a locking Vcam 105 for coaction with the arcuate portions 104 and a pin 106for engagement with the radial slots 108. The shaft 100 terminates in a crank 107 disposed exteriorly of the case 65.

The sprocket wheel 88 will have ve times the number of teeth of sprocket wheel 86,

`and with this proportion together with the proper sized spacing roller 7 6 the strip 67 will be advanced so as to move its exposed surface beyond the opening 66 and an unprinted surface abreast of the opening 66 upon one complete rotation of the crank 107 following photographic section into expos- 'ing range with said means. This transmission will also serve to rotate the shutter 57 to advance the opening 59 from a position in registry with the lens and bring the opaque portion 58 abreast of the lens 35.

'1t will be readily understood that opaque portion 58 must be advanced in front of the film before a new photographic section thereof is brought into registry with the lens 85 and it will be seen that the driving member 47 of the camera Geneva movement, which is mounted on shaft 48, will rotate a considerable distance prior to the time that its pin 49 engages one of the slots 50 and thus it will be seen that the opaque portion 58 will be advanced in front of thel filml before the film itself is advanced. lt will thus be seen that successive reproductions or enlargements may be rapidly made by printing exposures from the photographic sections of 'the film 25 on to the bromid strip 67, in

reproductions from one photographic section or picture on the film 25, the shafts 59 and 96 will be connected and the crank 107 will be rotated so that at each printing exposure the strip 67 would be advanced to a predetermined extent. multiplicity of reproductions, one of the Geneva members of the camera, namely, either 46 or 47, could be removed so that the shutter could be operated from the shaft 59, or by hand. lt will also be seen that if one of the Geneva members 46 or 47 were removed it would not be necessary to remove the sleeve 97 as `the shaft connection could thus operate the shutter 57 without advancing the film 25. After the desired numtages of the invention will be clear from the 1n making such a foregoing and while I have herein shown and described one specific embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be limited thereto except for such limitations as the claims may import.

' It is apparent that the object of perforating the ribbon having a sensitized surface and moved across the exposure opening of the reproducing camera is to mark on said ribbon the dividing line between the adjacent exposure areas, and therefore perforating is to beunderstood as comprehending merely marking, and in the claims the latter term 1s used to designate either.

l. In a reproducing apparatus, the combination of a case having` an exposure opening, a removable slide ,coveringthe latter and having a supplemental exposure opening controlling the area exposed, means for moving a ribbon having a sensitized surface across said exposure opening of the case, and a removable roller over which said ribbon is drawn by said moving means, such roller being provided with means for marking on said ribbon the dividing line between the adjacent exposed areas. i

2. In a reproducingapparatus, the combination of a case having an exposure opening,

- a removable slide covering the latter and having a supplemental exposure opening controlling the area exposed, reels adapted for winding and unwinding a ribbon having a sensitized surface across said exposure opening of the case, a removable spacing roller disposed relatively to said reels, and means ALao-ipse between the reels for guiding -said ribbon disposed relatively to said reels, means between the reels for guiding said ribbon over said spacing roller, the latter being provided with means for marking on said ribbon the dividing line between the adjacent exposed areas, and means for holding said ribbon tautly on said spacing roller.

- 4. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of `a projecting camera having means for feeding a ribbon of negative lm, a reproducing camera having means for feeding a ribbon of sensitized surface across the exposure opening of said camera in position to receive the image projected from the negative film, and discon` nectible means for operating the projecting camera from the reproducing camera.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE R. WATSON. Witnesses:

JOHN M. SMITH, E. I-I.y SMrrH. 

